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425 Contributors Ann Short Chirhart is an associate professor of history at Indiana State University in Terre Haute. She is the author of Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South (University of Georgia Press, 2005) and coeditor of Georgia Women: Their Lives and Times, vol. 1 (University of Georgia Press, 2009). Her articles, published in numerous journals and collections, discuss teachers, women reformers, and African American women activists. Currently, she is working on a biography of Mary McLeod Bethune. Kathleen Ann Clark is an associate professor of history at the University of Georgia in Athens. She is the author of Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863–1913 (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), as well as articles on a variety of subjects, including African American Emancipation Day celebrations, the author Margaret Mitchell, and historic tourism in Atlanta. She is currently writing a history of Gone With the Wind. Carlos Dews is chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at John Cabot University in Rome. He is also the director of the John Cabot University Institute for Creative Writing and Literary Translation. He was the founding director of the Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians in McCullers’s hometown of Columbus, Georgia. He edited McCullers’s unfinished autobiography, Illumination and Night Glare (University of Wisconsin Press, 1999), and McCullers: The Complete Novels (Library of America, 2001). Leslie Dunlap is an assistant professor of history at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She is currently working on a manuscript entitled “No Easy Union: Temperance Women’s Interracial Activism, 1873–1933,” a history of Native American, African American, and white women’s activism in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. Glenn T. Eskew is an associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta . His most recent publication is Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World, published by the Wormsloe Foundation in 2013. He is also the author of But for Birmingham : The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle (University of North Carolina Press, 1997), which received the Francis Butler Simkins Prize of the 426 Contributors Southern Historical Association. He has published two edited volumes of essays, Paternalism in a Southern City (University of Georgia Press, 2001) and Labor in the Modern South (University of Georgia Press, 2001). He is currently working on a book manuscript that explores civil rights memorialization. Betty Alice Fowler is the grant writer and assistant to the director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. She is the author of The Art of Lucy May Stanton (Georgia Museum of Art, 2002) and guest curator of the exhibition of the same name. Steve Goodson is currently a full professor and department chair at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton. His book Highbrows, Hillbillies, and Hellfire: Public Entertainment in Atlanta, 1880–1930 (University of Georgia Press, 2002) won the Georgia Historical Society’s Bell Award as the best book on Georgia History published in 2002. With David Anderson and Patrick Huber, he is coediting The Hank Williams Reader, which is under contract with Oxford University Press. Sarah Gordon, professor emerita at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville , is the author of Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination (University of Georgia Press, 2000) and A Literary Guide to Flannery O’Connor’s Georgia (University of Georgia Press, 2008), and is the editor of Flannery O’Connor: In Celebration of Genius (University of South Carolina Press, 2008). She edited The Flannery O’Connor Bulletin from 1985 to 2001 and is founding editor of The Flannery O’Connor Review. In addition to her work for the Board of Directors of the Flannery O’Connor–Andalusia Foundation, she is also a widely published poet whose poetry has appeared in numerous journals. Paul Stephen Hudson is an associate professor of history at Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta. He has published extensively in the Georgia Historical Quarterly and New Georgia Encyclopedia. His first book is coauthored with Lora Pond Mirza, Atlanta’s Stone Mountain: A Multicultural History (The History Press, 2011). Their next project is on Butterfly McQueen. Hudson is on the board of editors of the Georgia Historical Quarterly. John c. Inscoe is University Professor and the Albert B. Saye Professor of History at the University of Georgia in Athens. He is the author or editor of twelve books, the latest of which is Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in...